My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school. Douglass North Read Quote
I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington. Douglass North Read Quote
I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley. Douglass North Read Quote
I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work. Douglass North Read Quote
I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research. Douglass North Read Quote
In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake. Douglass North Read Quote
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. Douglass North Read Quote
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I. Douglass North Read Quote
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking. Douglass North Read Quote
